Androgyny & Crossdressing in movies

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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by Hume » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:56 pm

It's Pat!

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Re: Androgyny in movies

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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by metoo » Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:33 pm

The picture shows Emilie, doesn't it?

The books seems interesting, have you read it?
But from the beginning Eli was just Eli. Nothing. Anything. And he is still a mystery to me. John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by drakkar » Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:54 pm

oops wrong pic. New try.
No, but I'm going to. I think this is one of the cases when the book is better than the film.

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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by abner_mohl » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:44 am

Raquel Welch played a transgendered character in Myra Breckinridge (1970):

She starts out as Myron, played by obnoxious movie critic and part time bad actor Rex Reed:

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The surgeon does such a good job Myra now looks like a movie sex symbol, or more like a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader from the 70s:

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Based on a book by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckpenridge is considered one of the worst movies of all time, it also co-starred Farrah Fawcett and Mae West.

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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by Aurora » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:03 am

I remember showing a picture of Ben Barnes in Prince Caspian to a (male) friend who said that "he looks like a girl". While I don't agree with that it give me an excuse to put a picture of him in this thread :)

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While searching for the image above I found this one, so there might be something in it...

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...the other half belongs to Nina Dobrev btw
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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by Ash » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:58 am

Melinda Kinnaman in Mitt liv som hund.
Now that's a really great film! One of my alltime favourites: :D

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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by babyboi102909 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:30 am

I found this and I just wanted to post it on here because I think it's interesting.

Let the Right One In. Sweden. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Starring
Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. An intelligent, unsaccharine
vampire romance about two 12-year-olds, one of which has been "12
for a very long time." Both of the lead characters are androgynous,
each in their own way. A very good film. Adapted from the novel
Let Me In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which elaborates on the basis
of the vampire's androgyny. Twilight this is not.
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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by Dragonclaws » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:42 am

babyboi102909 wrote:I found this and I just wanted to post it on here because I think it's interesting.

Let the Right One In. Sweden. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Starring
Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. An intelligent, unsaccharine
vampire romance about two 12-year-olds, one of which has been "12
for a very long time." Both of the lead characters are androgynous,
each in their own way. A very good film. Adapted from the novel
Let Me In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which elaborates on the basis
of the vampire's androgyny. Twilight this is not.
Oh, really? I hadn't heard of that one. ;)
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Re: Androgyny in movies

Post by bore » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:05 am

Allow me to highlight the interesting part.
babyboi102909 wrote:Let the Right One In. Sweden. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Starring
Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. An intelligent, unsaccharine
vampire romance about two 12-year-olds, one of which has been "12
for a very long time." Both of the lead characters are androgynous,
each in their own way. A very good film. Adapted from the novel
Let Me In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which elaborates on the basis
of the vampire's androgyny. Twilight this is not.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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